#bumblebee2018

Bumblebee

Bumblebee isn’t going to beat out The Last Knight or Revenge of the Fallen. At most, it may tie (which still isn’t good).

Although this movie is more G1 oriented, the problem is Bay introduced a new spin on the franchise whereas Bumblebee just pleases romance and G1 fans. To fans of old, Bayverse sucked (which isn’t a large portion of the fanbase of the franchise believe it or not). But to the rest of the world, it was a new way to see the Transformers and this new way inspired Animated, Prime, Rescue Bots, etc which are all major successes thanks to Bay so hate the director all you want but without those movies, there probably wouldn’t be the revolutionary new cartoons we’ve been getting. It was a milestone despite it could have gone without the sex jokes.

Bumblebee isn’t gaining much momentum, not because the audience is entirely tired of the franchise, but because it lacks the amount of action and has the somewhat unusual concept of Bee as the main character with no one really by his side that appears, only in flashbacks they do. The audience may not have been hardcore fans like some of us are with this franchise so they don’t respond the same way as we do. They like the extreme action the Bay films gave, they like the Transformers appearing in the present of the movie and the interactions throughout as well as how it isn’t focused entirely on one Transformer throughout most of it. We as fans were of course disappointed that the plot was hard to understand, they have way too many Transformers pinballing through shots and annoying humans but the general audience doesn’t see it that way.

Some of you might say, “Well G1 is better and had they used that in the Bay films instead, the cartoons would still exist.” That actually wouldn’t be true because it turns out right before Bay rebooted the franchise to where it has recently gone, the Transformers franchise was actually fading because nobody cared much about G1 or the (kind of terrible) Energon trilogy. Beast Wars was phenomenal but it began to lose its charm overtime too for many fans and action seekers. The designs Bay used had (and I mentioned this before in some posts) a new alien appeal to them that made many think what would they truly look like because the G1 aspect doesn’t fit well in current media though it is nice to see. That’s why many of the cartoons had more up-to-date vehicles and a much more defined body shape for different individuals though animation is pricey so they sometimes had to reuse models. Now they are somewhat reverting back to a semi-G1 like system but it’s still integrated with the Bay (or rather Prime) designs to because it worked so well. Even the comics produced now are mixed with Bay and G1 just the same.

I know many fans want the new stuff to be more G1 oriented but what you have to understand is it might be fun for us but it’s not going to be fun for the rest of the world because to them, it’s an outdated style. We aren’t the majority in this situation. Bumblebee isn’t going to succeed as much as we want it to. Us as fans must remember that we might not like what is produced for our franchise but we have to look at the bright side of the content that is given because if we focus on the negative, we might not ever be pleased and that’s how fandoms die. I mean I’m disappointed about the Blitzwing-looks-like-Starscream thing but I’m not going to let that ruin the movie for me. Bayverse may not have been our cup of tea for the most part but it did give us the cartoons and comics we like today and that’s worth remembering.

So again, Bumblebee isn’t going to succeed and now you know why. Don’t be mad, just be considerate as to why it is. I’ve also seen a lot of negativity from the fandom as of late because of this movie coming out and this will create more harm than it will good. I guarantee Cyberverse will suffer, the fandom is going to suffer, and the future Transformers media will suffer if we keep this shit up. Moving forward is like growing up, we hate it but sometimes the best thing is to adapt but still treasure what was because it’ll always be there. 

You may hate me after this but now you know.